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Exit polls put the socialist Left Party in first place in Berlin and the far-right Alternative for Germany, AfD, in first place in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Both results mark a defeat for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU party. Merz, who is deeply unpopular, faces a tough road in the weeks to come.

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An explosion at a child daycare center has caused part of a building to collapse in the northern German city in Wolfsburg.

The Evangelical Press Service (epd) cited a policewoman as saying that there there were no injuries as there were neither children or staff present.

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